Kale Tribute - Taming, Socialization, and Training(Tree Monitor)
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- I put together a short music video tribute for Kale. Come see how far we have come together. The very first video uploaded to this channel was a similarly themed "tribute video" for Ajax, my other tree monitor. For those that missed it, you can find it here:
• Ajax Tribute
Music: Karl Casey@WhiteBatAudio
Song: Aerial
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such a cute lizard, thanks for sharing!
Freaking AWESOME
The cricket on the head 🤣🤣🤣
@@GoatsWildlife Yeah dude...it was such a joy going through all my old clips and finding a ton of gems that I had forgotten about.
Some of the clips had me legit tearing up.
TUNED IN!!!!
@@GoatsWildlife gratz on the black dragon. That dude looks so badass!
@@TreeMonitorTraining thanks brother!!!
Great video. Nice editing 👍
Amazing how it's possible to communicate and build trust between such different species as human and monitor lizards.
I mean, mammals are a given. But people don't consider that the same basic social interaction, reach much further.
People who say "it's just a reptile, why would we care about something so primitive. They don't feel pain or emotion as we do" -should watch this video 😊
@@anjatrorup1612 Thanks! Yeah it's nuts...I was a dog person my whole life and I've never experienced anything as beautiful and pure as working with these animals. It's hilarious that I never even intended to have a relationship with them like this. I was content to just observe them and take care of them until that first day of interaction just sort of happened. After that, everything just went so fast and they were both putting in just as much effort as I was in figuring each other out. All done with no food, no touching...
This entire process was a collaboration from the start and they made a lot of the important leaps forward themselves, on spec, just trusting that it would work out for them and no harm would come to them. These things are way smarter than people realize and I feel absolutely honored to have shared this experience with them. To this day I try to respect their independence as much as I possibly can out of respect for the huge chance they took on me.
I'll never understand exactly what's going on in their heads, but it's way more than just hurr durr, they just want food or they just want your warmth.
@@TreeMonitorTraining Well said 👍
Absolutely true that once you see in their eyes, that they attempt to comprehend something. You just want to know how they see the world around them.
@@anjatrorup1612 Yeah, for sure. There's so much more there, but it's way different than what we have experience with, in our own heads.
@@anjatrorup1612 Anja gets it, look at that bruiser she works with
@@TreeMonitorTraining hurr durr
0:32 If I could count on mine to get into that habit, my cleanup duties (doodies) would be far easier, then I wouldn't have to crawl under everything.
@@CypressWalker It's just consistency, man. I come home for lunch everyday at the same time. Kale chose this spot, I'm delighted with the location, so I encourage it.
Working on getting Ajax to use this location now because I am not pleased with his preferred location lol.
@@TreeMonitorTraining For mine, the moment I open that door, she's either climbing up my arm for a direct ride to the top of her enclosure or running down her ramp to go smell everything. There is no "lemme just drop a casual deuce before I explore". Thankfully I use soil in the enclosures, so my bio-active bug machine takes care of the ones she leaves inside.
@@CypressWalker Lolz, well, both my trees started out as going immediately when they left the enclosure which usually meant on my arm or down my back so it could always be worse.
@@TreeMonitorTraining poop arm, poop hair and poop neck. Gotta love it
I'm planning to get a basilisk or this one, this look more trainable. How long have you been training does gender matters?
Hard to say...they are coming up on their 2nd birthdays. The first one was probably this tame/socialized/trained by the time he was 7 months old, but I was only actually working with him for a few months. There are a lot of variables that go into this and I didn't know WTH I was doing when I started out.
Knowing what I know now, I could probably get them completely tamed down (feeling confident, safe and secure always) and socialized (interested in participating in interaction with you) within 2-3 months). The training would only take a month or two to get really ingrained - it happens real fast and then upkeep happens naturally.
I'm not sure if there are gender differences as both my tree monitors are male. I'd guess there are slight differences in confidence. But my Ackie monitor is female and I had no trouble working with her. She actually responds to vocalizations more than the tree monitors do. I'm fairly confident I could do something similar with just about any monitor regardless of species or gender in about 5-6 months tops.
@@TreeMonitorTraining Thx for sharing, I never see any reptile that jump on command before but I herd some iguanas can potty train in the toilet,
@@ikcaruswingz Yeah, I've heard that before too about other reptiles. I trained mine to come down to my tile floor and go there for easy cleanup. It didn't take much because they are already holding it if they know you let them come out.
Reptiles seem to be really good at pattern recognition and that's how all the training I do works. I have videos on this channel showing how I trained them to jump on command...basically it all works the same:
I run them thru the same event that is setup to produce the desired behavior. You want to keep all the variables as close to the same as possible each time while providing cues to the animal while he is performing the behavior you are trying to teach. (See one of my ladder videos) You don't need food, in fact it distracts them. I only train after they have been fed and calmed down for a bit.
With enough repetition on the behavior that you are teaching...you can then present them with the cue you used during training which will trigger the pattern recognition from the training event you put them through and they will perform the action they got used to performing while hearing that sound or seeing that gesture or whatever cues you are using. (multiple cues - sound and gesture works best) I'm sure this would work with any monitor and probably has some use with other reptiles as well.
Aren’t you glad you got laid off?!😉
Lol... It was more of a contract switchover that happens every few years where they hire on all the same people. This one just involved some legal disputes, delaying the hiring process. But yes! If I didn't have that time off, I don't know that I ever would have made the initial attempts with them. Prior to that I was content to just care for them and watch them moving around in the enclosure.